Staffordshire Marketing Academy is a new group formed by seven businesses in the county of Staffordshire in the United Kingdom. All of the businesses are specialist in an area of marketing and have come together to create a ‘not for profit’ group that can help support local businesses to encourage and inspire the local community to be the very best businesses they can be. The founder members are:

As one one UKNetcasts producers and presenters I am very proud to be part of the Staffordshire Marketing Academy and especially excited about there upcoming event Action for Business:LIVE at the Moathouse in Stoke-on-Trent on 27th May 2011. As well as having all of the members, above, involved in the day we are very fortunate to have a fantastic international speaker Rob Brown who is an authority on reputation management and referral marketing. In addition we also have a the very successful local business entrepreneur Ian Donaldson from Autonet Insurance one of Staffordshires fastest growing businesses.

On this first podcast Mandy, Caroline, Damian and James introduce Staffordshire Marketing Academy, talk about why they got involved and also tell us more about Action for Business:LIVE: